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Simona Halep found a peculiar way to win this title: She picked on Angelique Kerber's first serve. Kerber won only 52% of points on first serve -- slightly below her percentage on second serves. But, hey, whatever works; Halep broke four times, and was never broken.
Sara Errani reasserts her place as Italy's #1, but she still has a lot of points to defend; she still needs more than this to keep the #7 ranking. The good news is, she's the only seed left in the bottom half. Karin Knapp will probably hit the Top Forty, but she is a mere #40 in safe points, so it isn't sure yet.
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Ana Ivanovic earns her first title since Bali 2011. Because it's an International event, it doesn't help her much -- but she does overtake Sabine Lisicki to earn the #15 ranking. And she will go into the Australian Open on a high note.
The injuries actually started before the season began, when Elena Vesnina pulled out of Auckland. But mark down Sunday as the day of our first in-season injury to a Top Ten player. #6 seed Caroline Wozniacki is out of Brisbane due to a right shoulder problem. She still hopes to play Sydney and the Australian Open.
Laura Robson has worked tirelessly throughout the off season in Florida under new coaching team of Nick Saviano and Jesse Witten but it appears she may have toiled a little too hard as the world no.44 has been forced to withdraw from next week's ASB Classic in Auckland because of an injured left wrist.
CoCo Vandeweghe is working with Urszula Radwanska’s ex-coach coach Maciej She also recently did a photo shoot with Asics America. . . Urszula Radwanska has also pulled out of the Aussie Open with a shoulder injury and will be replaced by Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. . .
Italy’s fourth Fed Cup title was achieved a number of ways in a sometimes-trying year for the southern European nation, but the team hung together, which keyed their wins in all three ties they contested.
When Elena Vesnina lost the second set of this, we couldn't help but think, "Well, that's that." But this is the new model Vesnina. She came back to win -- and leave her record at 2-1, the same as Ivanovic's.
Russia had has troubles over the past weeks scraping together a team with many of the country's top players preferring to skip the final - but that's not the case with Italy when the nations meet this weekend.
Russia has announced it will field a Fed Cup team.
Initially it seemed that Serena Williams was the one with the physical problems. Then -- Li Na turned into the player who hadn't even won a set against Serena since 2009. Afterward, the champion said, "I can't believe I won, I was so tired. Did I really win?
What can we say except, "Another bad day at the office for Petra Kvitova"? These were the matches she was winning two years ago.... Instead, she ends another disappointing year stuck at #6.
After playing exos in Chile and Argentina, Novak Djokovic will vacation in Patagonia. . . Roger Federer asked a coach to do some coordination exercises with his twin daughters: "No way I would do it. I am not a baby tennis coach."
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